CubeSensor is your indoor air-quality detector

This article was taken from the March 2014 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content bysubscribing online. "We have all these ways of telling what it's like outside -- all these weather apps -- but no way of telling what it's like inside," says Alja Isakovic of Ljubljana-based CubeSensors.

Each CubeSensor is an indoor weather station that measures air quality, temperature, humidity, noise, light and air pressure. The sensors, which are shipping now, connect wirelessly to a base station, but are designed to "play nice" with other devices.

The firm has created an API so that users can make their Fitbit and Cube interact; if the Fitbit notices a user is sleeping badly, the Cube might point out that the user's bedroom is unusually humid. Isakovic says that some customers are already linking cubes to smart thermostats in the home, automating its environmental control. "We're thinking about how we can help make smart homes even smarter."

This article was first published in the March 2014 issue of WIRED magazine